"To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch…" — Thomas Hobbes

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• There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there… — Francis Bacon
• He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the… — William Blake
• When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the… — Edmund Burke
• Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. — William Penn
• Cats like men are flatterers. — Walter Savage Landor
• Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer. — Ben Jonson
• Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in… — Samuel Johnson
• We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act… — Charles Caleb Colton
• We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full… — Jean de la Bruyere
• It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth. — Madame Roland
• Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council… — Roger Sherman

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